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Also check the HA admission control to make sure it is not too restrictive. DRS and HA work
together. A good guide is Duncan Epping's ebooks. http://www.yellow-bricks.com/publications/ In
a simple cluster configuration without affinity rules, DRS may not vMotion any VMs if they are all
getting the required RAM and CPU needed for their apps to function. DRS jumps in when a host
becomes over-burdened and moves VMs to other hosts with open resources. It doesn't spread the
VMs evenly by default. Get Duncan's "Deep-dive" ebook. Explains it very well.
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Over-generous virtual memory and cpu reservations can also inhibit DRS and HA from functioning
for specific VMs. The destination host has to have the available resources to meet the
reservations at startup of the VM or DRS will not vMotion or HA can not restart the VM.
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HA is a functionality to protect VMs from a host failure. This feature keeps track of all VMs running
on hosts in the cluster. In case of a host failure HA will restart the VMs which were residing on the
failed host on other hosts within the cluster. So there is a downtime but at least all VMs will be
restarted which will increase availability. To notice a host failure HA will use network heartbeats.
HA will also provide two additional features called VM and Application monitoring. The way the
whole thing works is way more complicated, but maybe that might help to understand the idea
behind HA.
DRS is a feature which will manage the resources within a cluster (CPU and Memory) and will try
to distribute the load (running VMs) evenly between the hosts. DRS will use vMotion the balance
the load between hosts, if available. If you set DRS to manually it will only provide
recommendations, if set to fully automated it will do the redistribution on its own. DRS set to fully
automated will also make things like patching your hosts, or replacing hardware within a host
easier for you. Instead of having the migrate all VMs from the host before putting it in maintenance
mode you just put it in maintenance mode and DRS will automatically migrate the VMs via
vMotion before putting the host in maintenance.
If you want to get more information about these features I would recommend the Install & Config
course from VMware or Duncan Epping's and Frank Denneman's VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering
Deepdive (book).
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DRS = Dynamic Resource Scheduler. Balance load in a cluster (several levels of automatic
movement between hosts).
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Hello. This may echo what has already been said, but it's easier to imagine HA and DRS as
Hardware and Software contingents respectively.
If you have a host failure, whatever VM's were running on that host will be moved to surviving
hosts and restarted if there are sufficient resources, and the priority given to the VM residing on
that host. This is essentially the function of HA.
If a host becomes over-burdened due to excessive memory or vCpu allocations DRS will move
the associated VM to a host with more resources available. It's important to have the correct
setting for DRS in your environment as too conservative (or liberal) a setting can cause problems
with your storage resources.
The following is a good demonstration one of my helpdesk team used last week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSHLZ3H31g4

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Thank you all.its really great explanation from all of you to clear my doubt
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DRS
A VMware DRS cluster is a collection of ESX/ESXi hosts and associated virtual machines with
shared resources and a shared management interface. Before you can obtain the benefits of
cluster-level resource management you must create a DRS cluster.
When you add a host to a DRS cluster, the hosts resources become part of the clusters
resources. In addition to this aggregation of resources, a DRS cluster supports cluster-wide
resource pools and enforces cluster-level resource allocation policies. The following cluster-level
resource management capabilities are available.
Load Balancing. The vCenter Server system monitors distribution and usage of CPU and memory
resources for all hosts and virtual machines in the cluster. DRS compares these metrics to an
ideal resource utilization given the attributes of the clusters resource pools and virtual machines,
the current demand, and the imbalance target. DRS then performs (or recommends) virtual
machine migrations. When you first power on a virtual machine in the cluster, DRS attempts to
maintain proper load balancing either by placing the virtual machine on an appropriate host or by
making a recommendation.
Power Management. When the VMware DTM (Distributed Power Management) feature is
enabled, DRS compares cluster- and host-level capacity to the demands of the clusters virtual
machines, including recent historical demand. DTM places (or recommends placing) hosts in
standby power mode if sufficient excess capacity is found. DTM powers on (or recommends
powering on) hosts if capacity is needed. Depending on the resulting host power state
recommendations, virtual machines might need to be migrated to and from the hosts.
Virtual Machine Placement. You can control the placement of virtual machines on hosts within a
cluster, by assigning DRS affinity or antiaffinity rules.
HA
VMware HA supports high availability for virtual machines by pooling them and the hosts they
reside on into a cluster. VMware HA monitors the hosts. In the event of host failure, VMware HA
migrates virtual machines to hosts with capacity. When you add new virtual machines to a
VMware HA cluster, VMware HA checks whether enough capacity to power on that virtual
machine on a different host in case of host failure is available.
Using VMware HA and DRS Together
Using VMware HA with VMware DRS combines automatic failover with load balancing. This
combination can result in faster rebalancing of virtual machines after VMware HA has moved
virtual machines to different hosts.
When VMware HA performs failover and restarts virtual machines on different hosts, its first
priority is the immediate availability of all virtual machines. After the virtual machines have been
restarted, those hosts on which they were powered on might be heavily loaded, while other hosts
are comparatively lightly loaded. VMware HA uses the CPU and memory reservation to determine
failover, while the actual usage might be higher.
In a cluster using DRS and VMware HA with admission control turned on, virtual machines might

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VMotion.
When VMware HA admission control is disabled, failover resource constraints are not passed on
to DRS and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM). The constraints are not enforced.
DRS evacuates virtual machines from hosts and place the hosts in maintenance mode or standby
mode regardless of the effect this might have on failover requirements.
VMware DPM powers off hosts (place them in standby mode) even if doing so violates failover
requirements.
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Can we use local storage as shared storage ?
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Scott Vessey
Global Technical Onboarding Manager at VMware

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DRS = Distributed Resource Scheduler
@Hemant
Using local storage as shared storage is possible with VMware VSAN, there are other softwarebased solutions that give similar capabilities too.
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Adam Miller
Network Administrator at Investors Community Bank
All great explanations of HA and DRS.Thanks!

Adam

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Manish Jha
IT Operations Analyst at Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.

Manish

Great explanations by guys. I would like to add that HA not only restart VM's after esxi host failure
but we can also protect individual VM using HA. We have to enable VM and app monitoring while
configuring HA. Also with vsphere App HA it is possible to recover failed services in certain type of
workloads including IIS and SQL services for example.
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Rudranjan Saha
Senior Operations Professional at IBM

Rudranjan

@ hemant
Yes you can
VMware Virtual SAN
VMware Virtual SAN is a new hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage platform that is
fully integrated
with VMware vSphere. Virtual SAN aggregates locally attached disks of hosts that are members
of a vSphere
cluster, to create a distributed shared storage solution. Virtual SAN enables the rapid provisioning
of storage
within VMware vCenter as part of virtual machine creation and deployment operations.
Virtual SAN is a hybrid disk system that leverages both flash-based devices, to provide optimal
performance,
and magnetic disks, to provide capacity and persistent data storage. This delivers enterprise
performance and a
resilient storage platform.
The distributed datastore of Virtual SAN is an object-store file system that leverages the vSphere
Storage Policy
Based Management (SPBM) framework to deliver application-centric storage services and
capabilities that are
centrally managed through vSphere virtual machine storage policies.
This document focuses on the definitions, sizing guidelines, and characteristics of the Virtual SAN
distributed datastore.
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